Wichita eagle., 1887-04-12
FACTS FOR THE CONSIDERATIONiOF
THE BUSINESS MEN OF WICHITA.

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SIR: Inquiries as to Wichita and the
Interstate law: In "perigeinating" up and
down, and around, over. through anC
across, the Southwestern Empire" &
great many inquiries were made concern
ing the "long and short haul, and whether
or no Kansas City in Missouri" on the
ante deluvian, ante christ, ante bellum,
autiquated, prehistoric, alleged, and re-
puted city Of Saint Josef" in "Missouray'
would on account of the Interstate law
hold any edge over Wichita, SO as to pre-
vent Wichita from selling merchandise. to
(what the people in the southwest are
pleased to term) natural Wichita points?''
SANTA FE METHODS AS TO WICHITA:
Having acquaintance at Missouri Pa
citic points south and west Of Wichita,
and at places desirous of this railroad con-
nection and being, to some extent, inter
ested in Wichita and the Missouri Pacific
r. r. information of the methods of Kan
sas City, and Saint Josef" and Kansas
Citys chief attorney best backer and most
persistent blower, Cthe Santa Fe r. R.
CO.. has been acquired without effort.
THE AMERICAN TOMB:
The influence of Saint "Josef" is NOM
inal. In fact reply to attacks of this
newly discovered American tomb, gives
St. Josef credit abroad. much greater
than it has dignity at home, to support.
THE SANTA FE OUR FOE NOT KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City would be powerless to hold
any degree of the trade of natural Wich-
ia points" were it not that the Santa Fe"
and its connecting lines in the southwest
are acting in the capacity of trade solici-
tors and real estate agents for Kansas City
in the state of Missouri.
THE "MULvANE EXTENSION"
of the Santa Fe" both east and west is
heralded along the entire lines of the San
ia Fe" in Kansas as the Kansas City short
line to the southwest, whereby Wichita is
to be practically destroyed, her business
men rnined, aud her population driven to
seek ether places in which to earn liveli-
hood
The persistency with which the employees
and attaches of the Santa Fe" system
damn Wichita and laud Kansas City would
suggest to an unbiased mind that they were
in their 'damning and lauding" only car
rying out the duties imposed on them when
they entered the "Santa Fe's" service.
WICHITA MUST FIGHT OR RUN.
Wichita must counteract the work of the
Santa Fe" not Kansas City's, and unless
the "Santa Fe' abandons her petty fight on
Wichita, Wichita through her business men
must retaiate on the "Santa Fe" Or cow
ardly surrender.
The Santa Fe has drawn more money
out of Wichita than any other station
on its line in Kansas, and yet, because its
'1and grant" was small in our county, it
in early years sought to divert all travel
away from Wichita, and not succeeding, it
has grown jealous of Wichita, and has
for years fought us from malice, envy,
hate, spite and malevolence.
Despite the fact that the Santa Fe owned
Topeka, controlled Newton, and exercised
parental solicitude over Hutchinson,
acted as guardian for Kingsley and as
Kansas City real estate agent and trade
solicitor, Wichita has, from sheer labor
and industry, climbed the rugged hill, and
now, from her well-earned vantage ground,
commands respect, admiration and trade,
courts investigation and defes compe-
tition.
The Santa Fe, during the lives Of her
present management, will never forgive us
for thus building the best city on the line
of Its road, and one great source OF NOR
titication the Santa Fe feels is that in the
up building of Wichita it can never claim
any credit, without being proved to be a
liar, so long as the descendants of the men
who built Wichita live.
wICHITA's SUPREMACY OVER SANTA FE
MAIN LINE TOWNS
1t is truly wonderful that the main line
cities of the Santa Fe have been surpassed
by their i'll favored branch line sister, yet
all save Topeka had some drawbacks.
talkative, talismanic,
tawdry Topeka-the headquarters
Of .he Santa Fe system, the
home of tho Santa Fe mechanic,
The State Capital, heprotegee ofsuccessive
legislatioDs. the aims beggar of twenty
years standing, the COLOSSAL lunch counter
of Kansas. and hash veuder of the west,
in an appropriation, Graded,
nurtured. and sustained by appropriations
and petted by corporations, Topeka can
not hold her own against the ''Sun-burnt
Injun" child who awoke to existence in
1870 on the banks Of the Big and Little
Arkansas rivers, and without corporate
assistance or legislative aid, hath carved
Its way from lowliness to eminence from
poverty to wealth, from abjectRess to
power, neither begging, demanding nor
asking anything, square deal, free
field, an open fight, conscious of its power,
born Of courage and manly Independence,
feeling that 1T had an eye as keen, an
arm as long, and brain q. clear as any foe
it had to grspple with" With naught but
the primal Kansas clements, sand wind,
and water, boldly i; entered the lists where
of wealth. power. and infu-